Chris Nolan's Dark Knight Rises Movie Influences

We know that Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities was a literary influence on The Dark Knight Rises, but which films influenced Christopher Nolan's Batman finale? The director has revealed them to Yahoo.

The five films that influenced Nolan's TDKR are: Fritz Lang's Metropolis; The Battle of Algiers; Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City; David Lean's Doctor Zhivago; and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, a movie Nolan has long cited as important influence on him as a filmmaker.

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Nolan said of Blade Runner, "“Simply the most memorable evocation of all that is spectacular and oppressive about the city.”The director also had this to say about the 1927 silent classic Metropolis: “In an era when films had to communicate purely with the visual, the relationship between the themes of the story and the architecture of the setting is clear and expressive."